Agreed, and a big thank you for trailblazing the path! For our purposes I'm real happy with the blend of weight, performance and expense. At some point we'll take her around the island or over to St. Thomas/St. John and back, and I'll collect and post some real world fuel use results.
A couple notes: the 1995 carbed, two stroke, 200 hp Yamaha that the Merc replaced only got about 1.5 mpg (plus two stroke oil) on a good day. The old gas tank was 75 gallons, foamed in, and fairly pitted on the bottom from water being trapped in there. I considered "repairing it" with JB Weld, but then it occurred to me that we were (hopefully!) going to be seeing some greatly improved fuel economy, so built/installed a new 40 gallon tank with all new hoses, and now appear to have actually increased range.
Oh yeah, at the ramp the fellas running triple 350's on 30-35 footers do look at me like I must be from another planet!
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